Salt in all solutions?

I know that the advice is to add around 9g salt per quart if water to avoid electrolyte balance and all the issues this brings with it.

However, what about including salt in other retention recipes? I've never seen it recommended for addition to any other types if enema. Is this for a reason? Do the other enemas provide enough of an osmotic balance not to have to add salt?

Add the salt to all solutions in proportion to the amount of water used, but that is just me. I would not want the water retention. Except maybe coffee solutions that you want retained.

Salt is definitely an option and not necessary.

If you have known severe kidney problems you might want to use the salt, but most of us here have done hours of enemas or extended length colonic irrigations with no additives and had zero problems.

EQueen and Susie, thanks for your responses.

No known kidney issues here. I'll stick with using salt if I do long retentions with pure water but tbh my ability to hold anything else for much longer means salt probably doesn't come into it anyway. Well, until I start using my double balloon!

Susie---Thanks for the official word on salt. I have tried it both ways and could not see that it really made a difference. Now I will not worry about not using it.

hankb

What about people who have to limit their salt intake n general? For instance to keep the heart rate and blood pressure to acceptable levels.

I know that many foods, processed foods mainly, even innocuous seeming things like ice cream or ready to eat meals, can really cause problems due to the salt content.

So, wouldn't this pertain to adding salt to enemas as well? Reduce or eliminate salt content as much as possible if you wish to avoid cardiac issues?

Baking soda replace salt , 14 gramms baking soda mixed in 1 liter water .

( 9 gramms salt mixed in 1 liter water ) (saline hospital care solution)

Baking soda replace salt , 14 gramms baking soda mixed in 1 liter water .

I'm quite certain that it's the sodium (natrium for many European languages) content that causes the heart troubles, not salt as such. And since baking powder is usually sodiumbicarbonate based, you're back to square one. Same problem.

That's why, as an aside, it is often so frustrating for people who need to avoid salt/sodium, to find low sodium content in food. It's not only salt, but other sodium based products as well that are the norm in the food industry.

Adding salt to a soap solution can cause the soap to precipitate out—depending on the strength of the soap solution and the amount of salt you add. This is probably why recipes for soapsuds enemas generally don’t include salt.